Donatella Calabi

Università Iuav di Venezia

calabi@iuav.it

Donatella Calabi is Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Urban History at the Università Iuav di Venezia and co-founder of Visualizing Venice. She has written on the early modern city and on the origins of urbanism in Europe. Her works include: Rialto: le fabbriche e il ponte(1987), La città degli ebrei (1991/1996), Il mercato e la città (1993), The Market and the City[2004]), Piazze fabbriche, mercati. La città italiana del Rinascimento (1997), Marcel Poëte et le Paris des Années Vingt (1998), Venise (1999), Les Etrangers dans la ville (1999), Storia dell’urbanistica europea (2000); La città del primo Rinascimento (2001), Storia della città. Età moderna/Età Contemporanea (2001/2005), and Cities and cultural exchanges (2008). Her writings have been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Hebrew, and Japanese.

Calabi served as directeur d’ètudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHSS) of Paris; as visiting professor at the KU Leuven, the British Academy in London, and the University of São Paulo; as an honorary fellow at the University of Leicester. She is former president of the European Association of Urban Historians (EAUH) and the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana (AISU). Since 2002, she has directed the International PhD program on the History of Arts in Venice. She is currently the Primary Investigator for a three-year nationally funded project on city museums.